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by senozhatsky 2514 days ago
Yeah. OOM-kill handling wants to be a silver bullet, sort of. For instance, Linux kernel provides a number of I/O schedulers or net schedulers, etc. to pick from, but OOM kill is "one size fits all". And it doesn't really look like things are going to change [1][2][3].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/alpine.DEB.2.21.1810221406400.1...

[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181024155454.4e63191fbfaa0441...

[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181023055655.GM18839@dhcp22.s...